Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Lead Platform Engineer

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, straightforward, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.

With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

The Lead Platform Engineer is a hands-on technical leader responsible for designing, building, and maintaining automation frameworks and platform services that support largescale hybrid infrastructure environments. This role focuses on engineering reusable automation patterns using Chef, Infrastructure as Code, and DevOps tooling to deliver consistent, secure, and self-service infrastructure capabilities. The ideal candidate brings strong DevOps engineering experience, deep knowledge of Chef (Infra, Habitat, or Automate), and a passion for building scalable automation systems, not performing manual operations.

Design, develop, and maintain Chef cookbooks, recipes, roles, and policy files to automate configuration management across cloud and prem environments.





Build and maintain Chef Automate or equivalent orchestration pipelines for compliance, reporting, and fleet management.

Engineer reusable automation frameworks, including shared libraries, templates, and patterns for consistent infrastructure provisioning.

Integrate Chef automation with CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, artifact repositories, and enterprise governance controls.

Implement automated testing and validation for Chef code using tools such as Test Kitchen, InSpec, and ChefSpec.

Collaborate with cloud, platform, and security teams to define and enforce configuration baselines, compliance policies, and hardened system standards.

Support the design and implementation of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep) for provisioning compute, network, and platform services.

Troubleshoot complex automation, configuration, and infrastructure issues across hybrid environments.

Contribute to platform engineering initiatives such as self-service catalogs, GitOps workflows, and automated remediation.

Document automation patterns, architectural decisions, and operational runbooks.

5–8+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, or configuration management roles.

- Strong hands-on experience with Chef Infra, including cookbook development, policy files, Test Kitchen, and InSpec.
- Experience managing largescale configuration management environments (Chef Server, Chef Automate, or similar).
- Solid understanding of Linux systems administration, OS hardening, and configuration of lifecycle management.




- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and on Prem virtualization (VMware, HyperV).
- Strong scripting or programming skills (Ruby preferred for Chef, plus Python, Bash, or PowerShell).
- Experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex automation and infrastructure issues across hybrid environments.

Experience with Chef Habitat or application-level automation.

Experience with Chef Automate for compliance, reporting, and fleet orchestration.

Experience with policyascode tools (OPA, Conftest, Sentinel).

Exposure to Kubernetes, Helm, or container orchestration.

Experience with monitoring and observability platforms (Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, ELK).

Knowledge of network automation or infrastructure APIs.

Configuration Management

Chef Infra (cookbooks, recipes, policy files)

Chef Automate, InSpec, Test Kitchen

Ruby development for automation

Hybrid cloud provisioning (AWS, Azure, GCP)

VMware and on Prem infrastructure automation

DevOps & CI/CD

Pipeline design and automation

Automated testing, linting, and security scanning

Automation & Scripting

Ruby, Python, Bash, PowerShell

API integration and automation tooling

Platform Engineering

Self-service automation

Configuration baselines and compliance automation

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;

Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

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